Material Planner

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Description

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY

• Material Availability: Place orders with suppliers and maintain dates and scheduling to ensure final products and orders are dispatched in a timely manner.
• Inventory Optimization: Maintain minimum inventory levels and ensure appropriate quantities of materials are available to meet shop order and customer orders by the requested / plannable date, while meeting inventory turns goals.
• Inventory Part Availability Planning: Utilize the MRP System to manage material flow from suppliers, returns, demand, inventory in order to maintain proper stocking levels.
• Purchasing Optimization: Combine multiple requisitions from multiple sources to consolidate purchases to meet minimum order quantities and to maximize purchasing volume discounts.
• Order Date Management: Place orders in timely manner in order to meet expectations. Follow up with suppliers to insure they meet their delivery commitments.
• Dashboards: Create dashboards that communicate performance levels around On Time Deliveries, Accuracy, and Quality that inspire the team meet our customer expectations.
• Manage Change Requests: (Purchase Orders / Customer Orders) Dates / Delivery / Shop Orders / Projects can be impacted

KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE

• • Strong computer skills and knowledge of MS Office and ability to learn new software/programs.
  • Ability to work in a high stress environment that involves problem solving in other departments (AP / Sales / Service / Data / Warehouse)
  • Experience in supply chain management .
  • At least 3 years of experience in purchasing and materials controls in a lean manufacturing environment.
  • Knowledge of an ERP business system and willingness to learn is a must.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, team building, and supplier relation skills are a must.
  • Highly organized with strong attention to detail, and superior follow-up skills
  • Pricing: Coordinate Pricing Updates (with Sales Point Person & Business Unit Leaders / Suppliers)

    Travel Requirements:

    Dependent on business and supplier requirements.  May require travel to other locations for learning, sharing best practices, and consulting with suppliers. Travel generally below 5%, but can be higher to meet business needs.

    Essential Performance Skills Definitions:

    Decision Making and Problem Solving: Able to identify and take action in solving problems while exhibiting judgment and a realistic understanding of issues: able to use reason, even when dealing with emotional topics.

    Commitment to Task: Able to start and persist with specific courses of action while exhibiting high motivation and sense of urgency; willing to commit long hours of work and make personal sacrifice in order to reach goals.

    Coping: Able to maintain a mature problem-solving attitude while dealing with interpersonal conflict, hazardous conditions, personal rejection, hostility, or time demands.

    Spoken and Written Communications: Able to clearly present information through the spoken and written word; influence or persuade others through oral or written presentation in positive or negative circumstances; listen well.

    Goal Setting: Able to define realistic, specific, and measurable goals and objectives; to prioritize objectives.

    Organization and Planning: Able to organize or schedule people, tasks, or services; to develop realistic action plans while being sensitive to time constraints and resource availability.

    Team Building: Able to work with people in such a manner as to build high morale and group commitments to goals and objectives

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Company DescriptionAt Control Southern, we believe that if you live with integrity, success will follow.

Control Southern helps manufacturing plants in the Southeast run better, faster and smarter through automation and customized valve solutions. We offer on-site consultation, engineering services, top-notch products and business experience.

To grow even more, we are seeking candidates with integrity, a drive to excel in engineering, a dedication to customer service and a thirst to innovative in management.

Our expertise is backed by Emerson, a leader in global manufacturing and technology. With a team of highly skilled automation professionals developing unique solutions for our clients in power, pulp & paper, life science, chemical, food & beverage, alternative energy and many other process industries, we help the world run more efficiently.

Across North America, Emerson strategically partners with local companies to assist with delivery, ensure quality, and maximize lifetime value of all automation assets. This integrated network of twenty-one strategically selected local companies, known as Emerson Impact Partners, offer the tools, services, subject matter experts, local expertise, and technologies within and beyond Emerson’s portfolio to serve valve, automation and reliability needs.

As an Emerson Impact Partner for Georgia, Bahamas, the majority of Florida and Alabama, and portions of Tennessee, Control Southern connects customers with world-class solutions, superior technical expertise, and life-cycle services.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with DisabilitiesCompany DescriptionAt Control Southern, we believe that if you live with integrity, success will follow.\r\n\r\nControl Southern helps manufacturing plants in the Southeast run better, faster and smarter through automation and customized valve solutions. We offer on-site consultation, engineering services, top-notch products and business experience.\r\n\r\nTo grow even more, we are seeking candidates with integrity, a drive to excel in engineering, a dedication to customer service and a thirst to innovative in management.\r\n\r\nOur expertise is backed by Emerson, a leader in global manufacturing and technology. With a team of highly skilled automation professionals developing unique solutions for our clients in power, pulp & paper, life science, chemical, food & beverage, alternative energy and many other process industries, we help the world run more efficiently.\r\n\r\nAcross North America, Emerson strategically partners with local companies to assist with delivery, ensure quality, and maximize lifetime value of all automation assets. This integrated network of twenty-one strategically selected local companies, known as Emerson Impact Partners, offer the tools, services, subject matter experts, local expertise, and technologies within and beyond Emerson’s portfolio to serve valve, automation and reliability needs.\r\n\r\nAs an Emerson Impact Partner for Georgia, Bahamas, the majority of Florida and Alabama, and portions of Tennessee, Control Southern connects customers with world-class solutions, superior technical expertise, and life-cycle services.\r\n\r\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities